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Letters .Patent No. 74,627, dated February 1S, 1868.

nrsovnuslvr IN BEE-Hives.

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TO ALL WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I,-H.A. SrIneEn,of Carrollton, in the county of Carroll, and State of' Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bee-Hives; and ,I do hereby declare the following to be a full and correct description ofthe same, suliicientto enable others skilled in the art to which my invention appertains to fully understand and construct the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which make part of this specification, and in which- Figure l is a vertical section in line :v x, iig. 2. l

Figure 2 is a vertical section in line y y, g. 1; and

Figure 3 is a detached top view of a ventilating-opening in the lid of one of the 'upper boxes ofthe hives.

Like letters indicate like parte in the several gures. v

My inventionA consists in a novel way of ventilating a bee-hive, and preventing moths from entering the same; also in providing novel devices by which aneasy access can be had tothe inside of the hive for t'he purpose of cleaning the same. l i

n the drawings, a may represent the top, b d the end, and c c the side pieces of a square bee-hive. The end-pieces b b serve as doors, and are hinged to the pieces cre. l B B are slats resting on pieces d ol, and divide the hive in'to two compartments, an upper smaller and a lower larger one. e e are cross-pieces, attached to the end-pieces c, having a slanting bottom, and forming a bearing for the glass frames D, which have knobs ff litting into recesses g y in the doors b. F and G are the bottom boards ofthe hive; they slide in grooves in the sides c e, the board Gr resting against the foot gl of the hive, and the board F resting on the board Gr.y H H are honey-boxes, provided with glass ends.V These boxes have an opening, E, in their top, covered with wire gauze, and operating in connection with a similar opening, A, in the top of thellidra, and also covered with wire gauze, as shown in iig.V 3. g2 represents a piece of woollen cloth, attached to the bottom of the lower end of the board Gr, 7L represents a hinged cover, over the opening A.

One oi' the most: important features in raising bees is the proper ventilation ot' the hives, so that the heated foul nir and moisture may be drawn ofi'.` To eli'ect this is the object of my invention. By drawing ont' or raising the board F, a draught is created, Athe air passing between the slats B, through the boxes H, and

their openings E, and the opening A in the top of the hive. It will be readily understood that the draught can easily be regulated by pushing in or drawing out the board F, and by opening or closing the aperture A, more or less, by means oi' the hinged cover h.

If it is desired toftake out the boxes H, a thin meta-l or wooden plateI may be passed between the boxes and the strips B, when the former can be removed, the plate preventing any of the bees from passing from the lower into the upper compartment.

Very frequently dirt accumulates in the hive, which it becomes necessary to remove. By opening the doors 6 b, the inside of the hive can be' watched through the glass frames D D, and, b'y'removing the latter, access is had to it, so lthat dirt can be scraped oli` from the sides, and, falling on to the bottom board G, can be easily removed. Y'

This bottom board G is provided at its lower edge n'itha strip of woollen cloth, g2. When this board is drawn n very little bit from the foot gl, the moths or bee-millers cannot enter the hive, as they fallinto the space below the bottom board G, and cannotA crawl over the cloth to 4get back.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by'Lett-ers Patent, is-

1. 'lhe combination of tbe Ventilating-openings A`E with thesliding bottoni board F and hinged cover h, substantially asY andl for the purposes set forth. i

2. The movable glass fra-mes D, in combination with tho doors b b and slidingbottom board G, substantially as and for the'purposes set forth..

3. The strip of clothg2 on the under side of the lowerl end oi' the bottom board G, in combination with ,the foot g1 of the bee-hive, substantially as and for the purposesset forth.

` H. A. STIDGER.

Witnesses J. ULMAN, l l

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